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Could be, I don't know if the female would use only the sperm from the captive male she mated with, or that she also fertilizes her eggs with retained sperm from a male back in the wild. Interesting question...

In Tilbury's "Chameleons of Africa" (2010) there's a chapter called "Zoogeography and patterns of distribution in the Chamaeleonidae". It is a nice discussion, containing several theories proposed by different researchers. Very interesting :)

How about reading some chameleon literature? ;)

I've kept them for a few years. They are incredibly beautiful! Keeping them is comparable with keeping montium, deremensis etc., though cristatus is a bit more a lowland species. I kept them in well planted 50x50x73cm glass terrariums, 24C during the day, and about room temperature at night...

I believe many people have vote Furcifer, because they one a Furcifer species (mostly pardalis) :)

Forgot to mention that the animal in the photo seems to lack hemipenal bulges on the tail base. Another indication of it being a female. Maybe you could try to gently palpate her belly in order to check if she(?) indeed has eggs?

I'm not 100% sure. Like I said, I don't know all the differences between the dilepis like (sub)species. I've never kept any of them, so I have to judge based on photo's and information I find in reliable books, and compare that to two photo's of an unknown animal. It's true that sexual...

Don't know too much about the differences between the dilepis-like species, but I find this animal has rather large occipital lobes. The photo's I have of Ch. dilepis isabellinus show animals with smaller lobes. My guess would be dilepis dilepis. By the way, I wouldn't be too sure your chameleon...

Really? Over here it's 98 euro, straight from Chimaira. I always buy my books on reptile expo's. Maybe, but there is too much bullcr*p to filter out + websites don't stay forever (take adcham for example). Books are more valuable for background information, internet is great to exchange...

Had to think about it for a long time, but voted Trioceros. The diversity of this genus' species is incredible: egg layers, live bearers, huge species like melleri, but also a lot of smaller ones, gular flaps, big spiny gular crests, even double gular crests, sailfins, occipital lobes, and many...

Or more. I've had them hatch after 105-107 days.

Probably, yes. But in wildcaught chameleons, it doesn't matter who the father is, since the chance that the young are related to a chameleon they are mated with (later on in their lives) in captivity is generally extremely low.

I keep them in glass terrariums and they're doing great! They are big fans of water and humidity, so I would prefer to keep them in glass instead of screen cages. The glass keeps the humidity more constant. But of course it depends a lot of the area you live in.

I own about 10 chameleon books and a whole bunch of magazines that have chameleon articles in them, or that are special chameleon editions or chameleon society "magazines". Other than that, I often get scientific papers concerning chameleon related subjects from the internet. Forums are a nice...

100% Trioceros cristatus. The one in the front of the picture is a male, in the background there are females too (male = brown, female = green).

I'd say only form pairs with 2 animals. If you would have 4 unrelated bloodlines (2 male, 2 female) and form 2 pairs, you can form unrelated F1 pairs with their young. If you mate a female with 2 males, further unrelated breeding would be more difficult. You could only (safely) breed the young...

I think it could be both. Female birds have been proven to breed with multiple males. It only increases genetic diversity of their offspring. Of course different phenotypes can also be a result from maternal genes that are expressed in the offspring (each baby receives two sets of chromosomes...

If those animals are inbred (which is at least highly likely), then there's your proof.

That would be interesting indeed, but difficult to find out if you want good data. You'd have to set up a controlled experimental situation with at least 2 groups of calyptratus (translucent and regular, even more interesting would be to compare with wild animals in Yemen), and keep them all...

Has anyone considered the fact that chameleons use their ability to change their color(intensity) to regulate their body temperature? Some of that ability is lost in animals that are partially translucent, so how much more proof would one need in order to see that this is a bad genetic trait...